From Norvelt to Nowhere: Norvelt Series Series, Book 2
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)

Jack Gantos. (2013). From Norvelt to Nowhere: Norvelt Series Series, Book 2. Unabridged Macmillan Audio.

Jack Gantos. 2013. From Norvelt to Nowhere: Norvelt Series Series, Book 2. Macmillan Audio.

Jack Gantos, From Norvelt to Nowhere: Norvelt Series Series, Book 2. Macmillan Audio, 2013.

Jack Gantos. From Norvelt to Nowhere: Norvelt Series Series, Book 2. Unabridged Macmillan Audio, 2013.

OverDrive Product Record

readingOrder

2

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1493-1/{9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1493-1/{9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1493-1/9B6/3C0/60/{9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1493-1/9B6/3C0/60/{9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781427233141
     2. • type: 8
        • value: macmillan_audio#9781427233141
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • id: audiobook-mp3
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781427233141
     2. • type: 8
        • value: macmillan_audio#9781427233141
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • id: audiobook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781427233134

mediaType

Audiobook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Jack Gantos

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

From Norvelt to Nowhere

seriesId

813504

dateAdded

2019-02-15T23:59:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=1358273
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

From Norvelt to Nowhere Norvelt Series Book 02

crossRefId

1358273

series

Norvelt

subtitle

Norvelt Series Series, Book 2

id

9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2

starRating

3.8

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • duration: 06:09:37
   • fileName: FromNorvelttoNowhere_9781427233141_1358273
   • partCount: 6
   • fileSize: 177461972
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781427233141
     2. • type: 8
        • value: macmillan_audio#9781427233141
   • rights:
     1. • type: PlayOnPC
        • value: 1
     2. • type: PlayOnPCCount
        • value: -1
     3. • type: BurnToCD
        • value: 1
     4. • type: BurnToCDCount
        • value: -1
     5. • type: PlayOnPM
        • value: 1
     6. • type: TransferToSDMI
        • value: 1
     7. • type: TransferToNonSDMI
        • value: 1
     8. • type: TransferCount
        • value: -1
     9. • type: CollaborativePlay
        • value: 0
     10. • type: PublicPerformance
         • value: 0
     11. • type: TranscodeToAAC
         • value: 1
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-mp3
   • onSaleDate: 9/24/2013
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/1358273-FromNorveltToNowhere.mp3
     2. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • duration: 06:09:39
   • fileName: FromNorvelttoNowhere9781427233141
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 177436628
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781427233141
     2. • type: 8
        • value: macmillan_audio#9781427233141
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 9/24/2013
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/1358273-FromNorveltToNowhere.mp3
     2. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: books on tape
2. • value: 1960s
3. • value: sixties
4. • value: Pennsylvania
5. • value: audiobooks
6. • value: children
7. • value: audio books
8. • value: funny
9. • value: middle grade
10. • value: young
11. • value: literature
12. • value: newberry
13. • value: newbery award winning author
14. • value: historical fiction for kids
15. • value: chapter books for readers age 9 12
16. • value: norvelt series

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Gantos, Jack
   • bioText: Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults and adults. His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, and Joey Pigza Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book. Jack was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and when he was seven, his family moved to Barbados. He attended British schools, where there was much emphasis on reading and writing, and teachers made learning a lot of fun. When the family moved to south Florida, he found his new classmates uninterested in their studies, and his teachers spent most of their time disciplining students. Jack retreated to an abandoned bookmobile (three flat tires and empty of books) parked out behind the sandy ball field, and read for most of the day. The seeds for Jack's writing career were planted in sixth grade, when he read his sister's diary and decided he could write better than she could. He begged his mother for a diary and began to collect anecdotes he overheard at school, mostly from standing outside the teachers' lounge and listening to their lunchtime conversations. Later, he incorporated many of these anecdotes into stories. While in college, he and an illustrator friend, Nicole Rubel, began working on picture books. After a series of well-deserved rejections, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph, in 1976. It was a success and the beginning of Jack's career as a professional writer. Jack continued to write children's books and began to teach courses in children's book writing and children's literature. He developed the master's degree program in children's book writing at Emerson College and the Vermont College M.F.A. program for children's book writers. He now devotes his time to writing books and educational speaking. He lives with his family in Boston, Massachusetts.
   • name: Jack Gantos
2. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: Gantos, Jack
   • bioText: Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults and adults. His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, and Joey Pigza Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book. Jack was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and when he was seven, his family moved to Barbados. He attended British schools, where there was much emphasis on reading and writing, and teachers made learning a lot of fun. When the family moved to south Florida, he found his new classmates uninterested in their studies, and his teachers spent most of their time disciplining students. Jack retreated to an abandoned bookmobile (three flat tires and empty of books) parked out behind the sandy ball field, and read for most of the day. The seeds for Jack's writing career were planted in sixth grade, when he read his sister's diary and decided he could write better than she could. He begged his mother for a diary and began to collect anecdotes he overheard at school, mostly from standing outside the teachers' lounge and listening to their lunchtime conversations. Later, he incorporated many of these anecdotes into stories. While in college, he and an illustrator friend, Nicole Rubel, began working on picture books. After a series of well-deserved rejections, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph, in 1976. It was a success and the beginning of Jack's career as a professional writer. Jack continued to write children's books and began to teach courses in children's book writing and children's literature. He developed the master's degree program in children's book writing at Emerson College and the Vermont College M.F.A. program for children's book writers. He now devotes his time to writing books and educational speaking. He lives with his family in Boston, Massachusetts.
   • name: Jack Gantos

imprint

Macmillan Young Listeners

publishDate

2013-09-24T00:00:00-04:00

edition

Unabridged

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

From Norvelt to Nowhere

fullDescription

Jack Gantos' rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal–winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens in the 1960s, deep in the shadow of the Cold War and the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania. After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the town's founder, twelve-year-old Jack will soon find himself launched on a mission that takes him hundreds of miles away, escorting his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on her relentless pursuit of the oddest of outlaws. But as their trip turns south in more ways than one, it's increasingly clear that the farther from home they travel, the more off-the-wall Jack and Miss Volker's adventure becomes. From Norvelt to Nowhere is a raucous road novel about roots and revenge, a last chance at love, and the power of a remarkable friendship.
A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013

seriesId

813504

gradeLevels

1. • value: Grade 4
2. • value: Grade 5
3. • value: Grade 6

reviews

1. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     Starred review from August 12, 2013
     Gantos’s sequel to his Newbery-winning Dead End in Norvelt offers less history, more murder, and another hefty helping of zaniness. An explosion shuts school for repairs, leaving Jackie, 12, free to accompany Miss Volker to Hyde Park, N.Y., to pay last respects to Norvelt’s recently deceased founder, Eleanor Roosevelt. Death (and a detective) seem to shadow Jackie around every bend: Mr. Spizz, the murder suspect from Dead End in Norvelt, is still at large when a new victim dies, and the travelers head to Florida when Miss Volker learns her twin sister has expired (she suspects foul play). During their road trip, Jackie reads Classics Illustrated comics that his mother has forbidden. “Those,” she tells him, “are what cheaters and idiots read.” But Miss Volker uses Jackie’s reading as a springboard to examine the life she’s lived, confessing her own Jekyll and Hyde personality and drawing a hilarious analogy between herself and Spizz to Ahab and his whale. The anxieties of the Cold War recede, overshadowed by these two larger-than-life characters bent on bringing a murderer to justice in the kookiest way possible. Ages 10–14.

2. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     November 1, 2013
     

     Gr 5-8-This followup (2013) to the Newbery-winning Dead End in Norvelt (2011, both Farrar, Straus) promises-and delivers-as much odd history and morbid hilarity as its predecessor. How can a routine trip to visit the grave of the town founder turn into a whale-sized mission of revenge? When two more old ladies mysteriously die, Jack's feisty, obituary-writing neighbor, Miss Volker, suspects her ex-beau, the still-at-large Mr. Spizz, is behind the crimes. Getting no help from local authorities, the mismatched duo embarks on a road trip from Norvelt to Miami to track down the notorious killer. The pistol-packing Miss Volker is dead-set on vigilante justice, while Jack hopes to prevent his elderly friend from doing anything drastic. Allusions to Moby Dick and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde hint that the course of this quest may not run smoothly. Meanwhile, the pair is being trailed by a rogue undertaker, a weasel-faced detective, and Spizz himself. Jack soon suspects there's more to this convoluted fish story than meets the eye. Fans of the first title will delight in revisiting favorite characters, but listeners don't need to be familiar with the first book to appreciate this new adventure. Gantos reads without flair, barely varying his voice for emotion or character. Unfortunately, this distracts from an otherwise highly entertaining story. This book will appeal to boys and reluctant readers, but stick with the print version.-Alissa Bach, Oxford Public Library, Oxford MI

     Copyright 2013 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

3. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     January 27, 2014
     In this follow up to the award-winning Dead End in Norvelt, Gantos sends 12-year-old Jack and his elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a road trip to New York, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. But with Mr. Spizz—the murderer from the first book—still at large and a new victim dead in Florida, the duo must head south to find justice. As a narrator, Gantos reads with an easygoing approach that works well for the material. He makes little effort to tweak his tone or alter his voice to render voices for the book’s characters. But—perhaps because of his deep knowledge of his own work—his performance is entertaining and effective. Ages 10–14. A Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover.

popularity

287

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/9b63c060-1078-4f7b-9b13-fd376114a7a2/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
• shareInLibby:
  • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=wbkUAMShdiw
  • type: text/HTML

id

9b63c060-1078-4f7b-9b13-fd376114a7a2

starRating

3.8

readingOrder

2

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1493-1/{9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1493-1/{9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1493-1/9B6/3C0/60/{9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1493-1/9B6/3C0/60/{9B63C060-1078-4F7B-9B13-FD376114A7A2}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Juvenile Literature
2. • value: Mystery
3. • value: Humor (Fiction)
4. • value: Young Adult Fiction

publishDateText

09/24/2013

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781427233134

mediaType

Audiobook

shortDescription

Jack Gantos' rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal–winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens in the 1960s, deep in the shadow of the Cold War and the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania. After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the town's founder, twelve-year-old Jack will soon find himself launched on a mission that takes him hundreds of miles away, escorting his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on her relentless pursuit of the oddest of outlaws. But as their trip turns south in more ways than one, it's increasingly clear that the farther from home they travel, the more off-the-wall Jack and Miss Volker's adventure becomes. From Norvelt to Nowhere is a raucous road novel about roots and revenge, a last chance at love, and the power of a remarkable friendship.
A...

sortTitle

From Norvelt to Nowhere Norvelt Series Series Book 02

lexileScore

930

crossRefId

1358273

series

Norvelt

subtitle

Norvelt Series Series, Book 2

publisher

Macmillan Audio

bisacCodes

1. • code: YAF001000
   • description: Young Adult Fiction / Action & Adventure / General
2. • code: YAF027000
   • description: Young Adult Fiction / Humorous / General
3. • code: YAF042000
   • description: Young Adult Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories